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Harlequin Dancing
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware figure of Harlequin dancing
Off-white salt-glazed stoneware. The figure is supported on a low dome-shaped mound base with a tree stump at the back. Harlequin wears a broad-brimmed conical hat with a bow on one side, a tunic with a large frill round the neck and smaller frills round the cuffs, a small cloak falling from his left shoulder, striped breeches, and shoes with bows on top. He stands on his right leg and has his left leg raised and bent at the knee. His right arm is raised and he holds a baton in his left hand which hangs the stump.
History note: Fransella & Moss, 29 Gerrard Street, London from whom bought on 29 March 1926 for £62 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
This figure was derived from a Meissen porcelain model by Peter Reinicke which was one of a set of Italian Comedy figures for Johann Adolph II, Duke of Weissenfels. Ten figures made in 1743-4 were based on engravings by Joullain to illustrate Riccoboni's 'Histoire du théatre italien', Paris, 1729. The Dancing Harlequin may have been modelled by Reinicke in 1747, and its pose appears to be adaptation of an engraving by Berain of the actor Henri Dumoulin titled 'Du Moulin en habit de Paysan'. A rare Longton Hall porcelain Harlequin might have been the immediate model for the Staffordshire white salt-glazed stoneware version.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Press-moulding : White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed
Accession number: C.809-1928
Primary reference Number: 76132
Old object number: 4836
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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